Turning road pricing policy into integrated solutions

Road user charging will need to evolve from a patchwork of local schemes and pilots into a scalable, secure and sustainable national framework thatdelivers benefit to a diverse range of users and stakeholders .To do this, it will need to embrace and reconcile different technologies (such as GPS, DSRC and cameras), manage records across disparate databases, schemas and systems, analyse and manage vast amounts of data, settle transactions between different providers and partners, deliver cost-efficient enforcement, provide event information and messages that assist drivers or managers and do so in a manner that provides a consistent customer experience, permits choice of payment options and delivers real value to the road user. BTis engaged in original research in many of relevant technologies, has experience of deploying the required underlying platforms commercially at scale, is deploying a global '21st Century Network' and has a vision for how practical implementation can be delivered in the evolving Web 2.0 world ofopen web interfaces, agile working, innovative partnerships, rapid development and 'mashable' applications .The paper presents options for turning developing road pricing policies into technologically and commercially viable solutions that benefit road users and society. Integrated solutions need to address the wider challenges related to transport, not just road pricing, at the central and particularly the local level where solutions needto be 'shaped' to local needs through consultation. Whilst widespread road pricing may take some years to implement outside London, local solutionsto congestion can be shaped now, in particular with demand management, aspart of a holistic and progressive implementation that focuses on the desired policy outcomes that we wish to achieve both for UK plc and in particular at the local level. In doing this we need to focus on public engagement and a viable operational model that deliver those outcomes, rather thanthe contributory technologies which are known and deliverable. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134522

• Authors:
  • MELLOR, N
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 11p
• Serial:
  • SMART MOVING CONFERENCE 2007

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Conferences; Demand; Global Positioning System; Intelligent transportation systems; Law enforcement; Payment; Policy; Road pricing; Traffic; Traffic restraint; Video cameras
• ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 6750: Camera; 8525: Conference; 285: Demand (econ); 1534: Enforcement (law); 9126: Global positioning system; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 272: Payment; 173: Policy; 240: Road pricing; 755: Traffic; 633: Traffic restraint
• Subject Areas: Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01081938
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 29 2007 2:31PM